On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 14:50:30 -0400, Knutson, Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>In z/OS R9 the Binder rejects request to write to a PDS that has
>non-RECFM U, unless RECFM=U is explicitly overriden.  This behavior now
>matches the behavior for PDSEs.  So if you try to link into your JCL PDS
>you won't damage it.
>

Thanks Sam.  That is what I was thinking of, not IFGEDI (which was new
with z/OS 1.5 , not z/OS 1.6 as I wrote).

IFGEDI protects PS dsns accessed via DISP=SHR. 

Mark
--
Mark Zelden
Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead
Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/
Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html

----------------------------------------------------------------------
For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,
send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO
Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

Reply via email to